Real-time Digital Simulation (RTS) Laboratory at UNSW Sydney

UNSW Sydney and the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications host the largest Real-time Digital Simulation Laboratory in Australia with extended simulation capabilities in the areas of:

• High-voltage DC networks.
• Power System Protection Testing.
• Smart Grids
• Microgrids.
• Renewable Energy Systems.
• Distributed Generation
• Power Electronics.
• Control System Testing.
• Hardware-in-the-loop Testing.

Real-time digital power system simulation provides an accurate, reliable and cost-effective method to simulate, verify and experiment with multiple technologies, functions, operations and control from individual components to small and large scale power systems.

Our Hardware:

The RTS Lab @ UNSW Sydney features:

• An 18-rack RTDS system with 90 PB5 processor boards

• • Among Largest RTDS in academic and research institutions globally
  • 216  Analogue input and output channels
  • 1152 digital optically isolated input and output channels
  • 4 three-phase power amplifiers
• An OPAL-RT OP5600
• 4x  OPAL-RT OP4500

The RTS Lab is housed in the state-of-the-art Tyree Energy Technologies Building (TETB)

Our Simulation Capabilities:

• Simulation of up to 864 three-phase electrical nodes (or 2592 single-phase nodes) at a 50 us time-step
• Large-scale power system components (Synchronous Generators – Transmission Lines  - Cables)
• Instrumentation (CT – CVT - PT), filters and passive elements
• Power Electronics  simulations at a 2 us time-step
• Average and switching models of Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs) with up to 256 Sub-modules